With attention-getting projects ranging from art robots and zipline carts to UV houses and zoetropes, local students ...

What’s the main goal of elementary school science instruction? And why do students who thrive in early-grades science seem to stumble when they reach middle and high school? I explore some of these ...

As more teachers are using both the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards, they will increasingly be confronted with a challenge: The standards in literacy and ...

Science education is rarely a priority in elementary schools. That may be changing under the Next Generation Science Standards, adopted in whole or in part by 38 states and the District of Columbia.

Rancho Canada Elementary School in Lake Forest held a family night focused on science education featuring more than 16 different kid friendly labs. The Feb. 27 event also included experiments from a ...

As a student teacher I witnessed extreme inequalities in how science is communicated and taught at California elementary schools. My first teaching experience was as a STEM (science, technology, ...

Interactive Web-based science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific concepts, and research shows the ...

Few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching in the nation's schools than the process of selecting instructional materials. This selection determines to a large extent ...

During the spring of 2020, the global education community faced tremendous disruption as it transitioned to emergency remote teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfamiliar with the ...

As families across Michigan start summer break, a major decision about elementary education is advancing in Lansing. On June ...

Fourth-grader Reagan Calkins likes to visit the fish in her elementary school’s marine science lab each morning. Her favorite: Sunny the blenny. On Jan. 16, the 9-year-old was holding a sea urchin at ...

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — Shameem Sherwin’s fifth-grade science classroom at Evergreen Elementary School had a stench to it this year. But in a good way as her classes of could-be scientists studied decomposing ...